Re: Network error: Connection refused

[William H. <wh...@fr...>]

Bryant, Heather said:
> Hi there, I am attempting to use Tight VNC over an SSH tunnel using PuTTY.
> I am using a Windows 2000 machine at work, connecting to a Windows XP
> machine at home.  I have no control over the Win2000 firewall, but I have
> full control over the XP computer.
>
> I seem to be having trouble figuring out port issues.  I opened up the
> following ports on my router: 22 and 23 (for the SSH connection),

SSH only uses port 22 by default.

 5800 and
> 5801 (for the VNC web connection should I decide to use it), and 5900 and
> 5901 on my XP machine.  I have the VNC set at display 1, so it should
> connect at 5901.

You don't need the 5800 and 5900 if your display is at 1.  Also, if you
use an SSH tunnel you don't need any of these except the SSH port (default
22).

> However, I can't get PuTTY to connect, it keeps giving me the Connection
> Refused error.  Is there something I need to change on my XP machine, or
> is
> it a port issue with our firewall here at work?

Do you have an SSH server installed?

-- 
William Hooper